{"id":8256,"date":"2020-04-17T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T19:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fixhybrid.com\/?p=8256"},"modified":"2020-04-17T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T19:30:57","slug":"a-word-of-encouragement-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fixhybrid.com\/?p=8256","title":{"rendered":"A word of en&#8221;Courage&#8221;ment   April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a former shop owner turned hybrid \/ electric car trainer,\u00a0this pandemic is the most disruptive event I have lived through. I have lived close to seven decades on this planet, five of which I have been working, four of them employing some great people. Here are my thoughts and some ideas as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fixhybrid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/safedfromvirus-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"260\" \/>First, all of us at ACDC, including the four part-time technician\/ shop owners (or sons of shop owners) that teach at the ACDC training center with me are\u00a0feeling well as are their families. Our staff consists of\u00a0Deb\u00a0and\u00a0myself; along with David \u201cOz\u201d, a veteran from Iraq and Afghanistan wars;\u00a0Kena, a student at Worcester Polytechnical Institute studying electrical engineering;\u00a0Oscar, a student at Worcester Technical High School studying automotive technology;\u00a0Aiden, a college student Middlesex Community College taking mechanical engineering.<br \/>\nAs you may imagine\u00a0all of our live hands-on classes are postponed, but everyone is still working and\u00a0no one was laid off.<\/p>\n<p>Our company is continuing to develop more unique classes and we have\u00a0more time for the completion of a three-year project, ACDC\u2019s \u201cHybrid, Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicle\u201d college level book and support materials.<\/p>\n<p>We have launched a completely new series on-line broadcast live twice a day. 8am and\u00a0 2pm (EST) so everyone, no matter where you live can continue to learn and prepare for your future in EMVs (vehicles with orange cables).<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, if you are wondering &#8220;why did this happen?&#8221;, maybe that is the wrong question.\u00a0This time is horrendous for many. Can you help someone in need is a better question? Can you offer support? Can you use this time wisely?\u00a0ACDC wishes you all well and we are here to help you as we all get through this together.<\/p>\n<p>Craig van Batenburg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a former shop owner turned hybrid \/ electric car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craigs-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fixhybrid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fixhybrid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fixhybrid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fixhybrid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fixhybrid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fixhybrid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fixhybrid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fixhybrid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fixhybrid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}